Minimal invasive surgery: A district hospital experience

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 274-278

  Hamour, O A ^a   Kashgari, R H H ^a   Al Harbi, M A A ^a  

^a Royal Commission Medical Centre   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CELLULITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031739015     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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